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Mediocrity is Death.
Suleman Abdullah
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Henry David Thoreau
Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
Vanna Bonta
Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous.
Lloyd Biggle Jr.
A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.
Proverb
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Thomas Carlyle
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Max Beerbohm
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli
Little things affect little minds.
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
James Russell Lowell
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
John Ruskin
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
Jean de la Bruyere
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.
Joseph Heller
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux
The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.
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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people.
Tom Murphy
